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The Gao 500: Effects Of Non-Practicing Entities On Patent Litigation, Robin C. Feldman, Sara Jeruss, Joshua Walker
The Gao 500: Effects Of Non-Practicing Entities On Patent Litigation, Robin C. Feldman, Sara Jeruss, Joshua Walker
Robin C Feldman
Any discussion of flaws in the United States patent system inevitably turns to the system’s modern villain: non-practicing entities, known more colorfully as patent trolls. For many years, however, discussions about non practicing entities have been long on speculation and short on data.
In 2011 Congress directed the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office to study the effects of non-practicing entities on patent litigation. Our study was performed at the request of the GAO, examining patent lawsuits filed over the past five years. The data confirm in a dramatic fashion what many scholars and commentators have suspected: patent monetization entities play a …
Plain Language Patents, Robin C. Feldman
Plain Language Patents, Robin C. Feldman
Robin C Feldman
Law is a process of Bounded Adaptation. The law that exists at any given moment is constantly driven to adapt to changing circumstances within the framework of what has gone before. The boundaries of that framework are policed by the necessity of articulating an interpretation in a way that gains general acceptance. It is the need to effectively articulate a common logic that mitigates the distortion of personal perspective.
This process of Bounded Adaptation cannot proceed effectively without an adequately structured dialogue that will promote the flow of information and analysis. Nowhere is this dialogue more challenging than at the …